Sold outKenji Lapi Lapi Dreaming Printed 1/4 Zip Fleece Sweat In Purple

Own a piece of art from the Warlukurlangu Art Co-op, one of the Northern Territory's original art centres and contribute to its local community. 

 

Warlukurlangu Artists x Kenji presents Magda Nakamarra Curtis - Lappi Lappi Jukurrpa (Lappi Lappi Dreaming) Printed Zip Fleece Sweat, featuring the artist's unique painting design on warm fleece fabric. 

 

Magda Nakamarra Curtis was born in Alice Springs Hospital and has spent most of her childhood at Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community located 450 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She attended her local school, then Yirara College, and continued her studies at Bachelor College before travelling around the Kimberleys in WA. On her travels, she stayed at Balgo, where she first started painting when she was 19 years old. 

Magda began painting with the Warlukurlangu Artists in 2004, where her Mother and Aunty have also been painting since 1987 and 1989 respectively. As a child living in Nyirripi, Magda would often watch her grandmothers and grandfathers paint and listen to them as they told her stories of their country. Besides painting Lappi Lappi Jukurrpa, Magda paints her Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) Jajiidi Jukurrpa (Western Quoll Dreaming) and Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming). When not painting, Magda loves spending time hunting for goannas and traditional bush foods in the countryside around Nyirripi and Yuendumu. 

The subject of this work is Lappi Lappi, a rock hole near Lake Hazlett, about 90 km north-west of Lake Mackay in Western Australia. The country belongs to Nampijinpa/Jampijinpa and Nangala/Jangala groups. Located in a sheltered basin, the rock hole at Lappi Lappi is a permanent water source and is surrounded by country rich in bush tucker.

In the time of the Jukurrpa (Dreamtime), many mothers with young children would gather there because it was a safe place to stay. The rock hole at Lappi Lappi is home to a 'warnayarra', a rainbow serpent that travels underground between various rock holes. One day, women were gathered at the rock hole with their children, singing and dancing, and when the 'warnayarra' heard the sound of voices, it travelled silently towards them, under the water. When it reached the edge of the rock hole, it rose out of the water and ate them all.